Quixotic Evil

Have you tried actually playing the game?

It's very good.

:-)

Yes, I was up later than I should have been on Sunday, driving some manner of hovercraft contraption. The game is good so far, although I must say I'm probably more looking forward to a decent session of Counter-Strike: Source.

Erm... do I need to remind you of your antipathy towards PvP? CS:S is only worth playing at 4am after a heavy drinking session in my experience. That way you not only not care about the l337 speak, you can't focus on it anyway.

HL2 is so much better. And make sure you download and play "The Lost Coast" because it's sweet (and free!)

What sort of tips are you after? Everything you're likely to need to know is linked from http://www.planethalflife.com

My antipathy for PvP resides almost entirely in MMORPGs. PvP for PvP's sake is fine. I'm still no good at it, but anyway...

I have The Lost Coast. I was a little suspicious of the way I bought the game on a DVD then Steam proceeded to tie up my internet connection for 5 hours 'updating' things, but in doing so I did make sure it got all the bits I was entitled to.

Not really sure what kind of tips I'm after, not until I've taken a while to work out what I actually want to do, and which skills I lack. I was just wondering whether anyone had any advice that was slightly more personal than I would find out there.
And I've found that Planet Half-Life is a poor resource for HL2; whatever Source stuff it has seems to be lost among everything else, and the only HL2 specific parts are preview junk that hasn't been updated since before release. Valve's developer community is very good though, as are a couple of other places you can stumble on through searches.

You're right - I haven't looked at the modding section since I dabbled in HL1 editing at which time it was a veritable fount of information.

Still - got links to http://collective.valve-erc... which might be a starting point.

The hovercraft thingy is fun, but the beach buggy is better. :-)

Valve have been having a lot of problems with their Steam service, etc, with several components only coming out of Beta in the past few days, according to my sources.

Nah, the beach buggy is too l33t for me: I don't have the same kind of symbiosis as I did with the hovercraft ;-)

Agreed Tom, for modding HL1 if it wasn't on Planet Half-Life it wasn't worth knowing. For HL2 I'm having trouble even finding any decent offsite links.

How can the beach buggy be too l33t for you? The hovercraft was cool but the buggy... it kicked arse!

Might have to play it again soon. Have you seen that very l33t video of someone speed running the game in 2.5 hours?

I'm having enough trouble just playing through the game in any amount of time at all, never mind speeding through it. I'm past that, ever since I completed Zelda Ocarina of Time in 55 hours. Straight.

That's pretty l33t, I'll have you know.

No idea how long Ocarina of Time is supposed to take. Excellent game, but if never occurred to me to hurry...

And no, not seen the video of the speed-complete; I wonder whether it might contain spoilers seeing as I'm currently working my way back across the underside of a railway bridge having just opened the gates for the beach buggy.

I don't know about poilers, but it may well contain spoilers. :P

You've gone through Ravenholme already then I take it? The spoiler for that in the speed run was that it took him about 2 mins to get through. Easy when you know how to take the short cuts!

'Poilers'? I don't know what you mean...

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